UPDATE 1/10/2010: Court rules that Upper Deck counterfeited Yu Gi Oh! cards. Details here. Los Angeles, CA – In October of 2008, Konami sued Vintage Sports Cards, Inc. in the Central District of California for sales of allegedly counterfeit Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards (details blogged here). The Court entered a permanent…
UPDATE 9/25/2009: Court dismisses Jim Brown’s Lanham Act claim with prejudice. Los Angeles, CA – Jim Brown, one of the greatest running backs of all time, made a bee-line to the Federal District Court in Los Angeles to file a complaint against Electronic Arts over use of his likeness in…
Los Angeles, CA – No love was lost when Toughlove America, LLC sued Drew Barrymore’s production company (Flower Films, Inc.) and MTV Networks for trademark infringement and Lanham Act § 43(a) unfair competition. In the lawsuit, filed at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, Toughlove alleges that the Defendants’…
Los Angeles, CA – Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s lawyers filed suit at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles against high-end baby carriage maker Silver Cross. The complaint alleges that Silver Cross “knowingly and intentionally misappropriated and used the names, images, likenesses and photographs of Lopez and Anthony to…
Los Angeles, CA – In response to Carroll Shelby’s trademark and trade dress infringement lawsuit (details blogged here), Defendant Factory Five’s attorneys filed a motion to either dismiss the case or transfer venue to the District of Massachusetts (details blogged here). Co-defendant Internet Community Partners, LLC, dba ffcobra.com, joined in…
Riverside, CA – Vista Del Mar Food & Beverages, LLC filed a Lanham Act § 43(a) trade dress infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Riverside. Vista has sold a shrimp tomato cocktail juice under the Camaronzazo trademark since 2006 and uses a label…
Los Angeles, CA – Patent attorneys for Minka Lighting shine a spotlight on Defendant’s alleged patent infringement with a lawsuit filed at the Central District of California. Minka is in the business of designing, manufacturing, and selling home products, including ceiling fans. Minka sells the subject ceiling fan under the…
Los Angeles, CA – Godzilla’s trademark lawyers previously devoured Subway’s “Five Dollar Footlong” Commercial (blogged here) and are now endangering Pink Godzilla’s existence with a trademark infringement and Lanham Act § 43(a) unfair competition lawsuit filed at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles. Godzilla was reawakened by the detonation…
Los Angeles, CA – Trademark attorneys for Coach, Inc. filed a trademark infringement, dilution and unfair competition lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, which also seeks to cancel the trademark registration of the alleged infringer (15 U.S.C. § 1064). Coach, which started as a family-run workshop in…
Although Cash4Gold.com is a defendant in a trademark infringement lawsuit (details here), its Super Bowl ad was the best this year: Although Cash4Gold’s commercial was amusing, according to these sites (here and here) Cash4Gold’s business practices are not.